Anonymous wrote:At least 9 Maury students will be heading to BASIS for 5th grade next year and are very happy about their choice, and two Maury students will be headed to Latin for 5th and are also happy with their choice. Many of these students and families would have liked to stay at Maury for 5th grade with their classmates but E-H is not seen as option, nor is S-H unfortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why SWS needs a middle school feed. Everyone who goes there has an IB school based on their home address. If the school is city-wide on the way in, it should be city-wide on the way out. That is how charters work that are not part of a specific system such as language immersion. If there was a Reggio middle school that was fed by all the city-wide Reggio elementary schools then it would make sense that SWS would get a feed to that. But, since such a middle school doesn't exist and there are no other city-wide Reggio schools to fill up such a middle school, everyone should just return to their IB middle school.

Neighborhood schools are for neighborhood kids. Kids at city-wide schools can fill open spaces at those neighborhood schools through the city-wide OOB lottery.

So is the penalty for attending a city-wide school not being able to stay with your cohort and friends from K-5? You sign on for city wide, you sign on to sending your kid to a new group of students and new environment in MS? I'm not saying I disagree withy his, just wondering what the sentiment is surrounding citywide schools. If DCPS were to add more citywide, specialized schools, is this the general consensus about what should happens to them in MS? Does this mean citywide schools ultimately hurt or help the MS feed... Is this an argument against them?

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why SWS needs a middle school feed. Everyone who goes there has an IB school based on their home address. If the school is city-wide on the way in, it should be city-wide on the way out. That is how charters work that are not part of a specific system such as language immersion. If there was a Reggio middle school that was fed by all the city-wide Reggio elementary schools then it would make sense that SWS would get a feed to that. But, since such a middle school doesn't exist and there are no other city-wide Reggio schools to fill up such a middle school, everyone should just return to their IB middle school.

Neighborhood schools are for neighborhood kids. Kids at city-wide schools can fill open spaces at those neighborhood schools through the city-wide OOB lottery.

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that many Maury 4th graders applied for Latin and didn't get a spot. They are not interested in Basis ( which still has spots open ). They would rather stay at beloved Maury for 5th ( rather than Lottery over to Watkins ) and then try their luck at Stuart Hobson, Two Rivers or Hardy for 6th grade. Retaining 4th graders into 5th says nothing about their plans for Eliot Hine. Probably a wait and see kind if thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Where did it feed to in option B of the last set of plans?

Eliot-Hine

Eeeeuuuuwwwww. From top to bottom, as it were. Those coddled SWS'ers are in for a reality check!

Many of those "coddled SWS'ers" have a slightly better IB option in Stuart Hobson, but that's not an ideal fallback either. Don't pity us too much -- we'll find good options wherever and in whatever sector.

If you want SH, then you should have a proximity preference.

don't need it -- it's IB for a large chunk of CH. the question is really whether or not cohorts remain together, and that's a big mystery across most of the non-Deal MS options.

It's not a mystery, at the higher SES end - they don't remain together. They fragment to middle schools that are all away from the Hill.

PP here. Didn't mean mystery as in 'I wonder where my kids' classmates will go for MS?' under current conditions I don't accept that at face value with no hope for better options just because parents of older kids have conceded failure at making this kind of positive change happen. Lots can happen in 4-6 years in DC. Deal wasn't that well regarded 10 years ago either.

Your memory is short, or, more likely, you didn't live here because you were finishing up grad school in New England.

Deal was a fine school in 1994 and well-attended by many upper NW kids from Lafayette, Janney and Murch. They didn't take all the spots like they do today, but there were plenty of them in deal's hallways.

-- Deal neighbor

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Anonymous wrote:They should really push for no feeder if the option is EH. You will see that kill their 5th grade.

How would no feed be an improvement. If it feeds to EH, people will be able to choose between EH and their IB school. If it doesn't feed at all then your only choice is your IB school. How will having an extra choice, even if it's not one you'd pick, cause people to leave. Wouldn't people who would leave because they don't want EH or their IB School, still leave?

^^ No kid-coddling helicopter parent at SWS is going to send their DC to EH. I would imagine that even SH in its current state would be off the list; it's off mine.

SWS needs to have a proximity preference; period.

It's not about me, it's about my kids and their neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:They should really push for no feeder if the option is EH. You will see that kill their 5th grade.

How would no feed be an improvement. If it feeds to EH, people will be able to choose between EH and their IB school. If it doesn't feed at all then your only choice is your IB school. How will having an extra choice, even if it's not one you'd pick, cause people to leave. Wouldn't people who would leave because they don't want EH or their IB School, still leave?

Anonymous wrote:They should really push for no feeder if the option is EH. You will see that kill their 5th grade.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the coddled SWS'ers would think to try to make a change at SH. They already bailed on Watkins by going to SWS. Bail once, bail twice. Until SWS has a proximity preference, no sympathy from me. To EH or beyond with you!